THE BALD SOPRANO
Monday, April 29th, 2024Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco invented a whole new genre of comedy back in 1950 with his théâtre de l’absurde ground-breaker The Bald Soprano, and if its 2024 City Garage revival is still rough around the edges as of opening weekend, there remains plenty to entertain an audience.
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Tags: City Garage, Eugene Ionesco, Los Angeles Theater Review
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H*TLER’S TASTERS
Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks finds laughter even in the darkest of situations in her provocatively titled, fact-based H*tler’s Tasters, the latest uber-intimate “Upstairs at the Matrix” Rogue Machine hit.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre, Michelle Kholos Brooks, Rogue Machine Theatre
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NORA
Saturday, April 27th, 2024
Housewives don’t get any more desperate than Nora, the up-against-the-wall protagonist of Antaeus Theatre Company’s enthralling, entertaining latest, Ingmar Bergman’s smartly streamlined take on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
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Tags: Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker, Henrik Ibsen, Ingmar Bergman, The Antaeus Company
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PRELUDE TO A KISS THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
A gorgeous score, appealing performances, and a book that will have you reflecting on the very meaning of love are just three reasons to fall for South Coast Repertory’s World Premiere musical adaptation of Craig Lucas’s Prelude To A Kiss.
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Tags: Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé, Orange County Theater Review, Sean Hartley, South Coast Repertory
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JERSEY BOYS
Sunday, April 21st, 2024
The wait is over! Twenty years after its La Jolla Playhouse debut and five years after a handful of U.S. theaters were finally given the rights to stage it regionally, Jersey Boys at long last gets the homegrown production SoCal audiences have been waiting for, and a spectacular one it is at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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Tags: 3-D Theatricals, Bob Crew, Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, Marshall Brickman, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Rick Elice
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TWELFTH NIGHT
Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Actors Co-op gives L.A.’s top-of-the-line classical theater companies some stiff competition with their irresistibly entertaining, tunefully tropical take on Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-crossed twins, mismatched lovers, and zany fools.
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Tags: Actors Co-op, Los Angeles Theater Review, William Shakespeare
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HIGH MAINTENANCE
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024Christian Prentice dazzles as a state-of-the-art robot about to star as Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House opposite TV diva Ivy Khan’s Nora in Peter Ritt’s High Maintenance, an initially captivating Road Theatre World Premiere that fails to live up to expectations in its romance-derailing, credibility-straining final scenes.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Peter Ritt, The Road Theatre Company
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OPHELIA
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
Award-winning writer-director-actor-designer Stefan Marks is back, and wearing all four hats at once, with Ophelia, his latest blend of theatrical magic, whimsy, and profundity.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Odyssey Theatre, Stefan Marks
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